“Confusing, unfocused, and unorganised” – L.A. Woman by Eve Babitz
#GordonBurnPrize 2019 shortlist announced
“Becalming, without ever being boring” – The Seafarers by Stephen Rutt
“Sort of fizzles out in an amiably compromised way” – Supper Club by Lara Williams
“An enjoyable trip down memory lane” – Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls
“Information still has some currency” – Cannabis by Box Brown
“Must-read historical fiction ” – The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood
“Comparatively very straight” – Night Boat To Tangier by Kevin Barry
“Refreshingly crude, political, and brusque” – Hot Flash Diary by Darcy Steinke
“Stiletto sharp” – This Brutal House by Niven Govinden
“Book of the year ” – Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman
“Completes an accidental trilogy” – Middle England by Jonathan Coe
“Shrouded in ambiguity ” – A Small Dark Quiet by Miranda Gold
“Troubling weirdness” – The Follies of Richard Wadsworth by Nick Maandag
“A slow burn” – Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
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“Entertaining and affable” – Gloucester Crescent by William Miller
“I was captivated by the mystery” – The Trick to Time by Kit De Waal
“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp” – Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah #IDTP19
“Has ideas and ambition” – The Gunners by Rebecca Kaufman
“That was a rush of blood to the head” – An interview with Ian Sansom, author of The Sussex Murder
“Marvellous, as ever” – The Sussex Murder by Ian Sansom
“Arthurs is terrific” – How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
“Rockets and communist witch hunts” – Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket by Fraser MacDonald
“More of a simmer situation” – The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Felicity McLean
“Unusual and dramatic” – Alay-Oop by William Gropper
“Wraithish fingers and ungentle mouths” – salt slow by Julia Armfield
“Hazen made science fun” – Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything by Robert Hazen
